Medical Informatics: Knowledge Management and Data Mining in Biomedicine

Book Overview

Medical Informatics and biomedical computing have grown in quantum measure over the past decade. An abundance of advances have come to the foreground in this field with the vast amounts of biomedical and genomic data, the Internet, and the wide application of computer use in all aspects of medical, biological, and health care research and practice. This book covers the basic foundations of the area while extending the foundational material to include the recent leading-edge research in the field. The newer concepts, techniques, and practices of biomedical knowledge management and data mining are introduced and examined in detail. It is the research and applications in these areas that are raising the technical horizons and expanding the utility of informatics to an increasing number of biomedical professionals and researchers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441937358
• ISBN13: 9781441937353
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 648 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"